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How
to
Get
the
Most
out
of
Status
Updates
Carol
Sumner,
IBM
Senior
Accelerated
Value
Leader
My
favorite
part
of
IBM
Connections
is
reading
my
colleagues'
status
updates.
I
enjoy
knowing
what
people
are
working
on
and
seeing
if
I
can
help
–
even
if
it
is
just
a
word
of
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How
to
increase
collaboration
through
a
community
Carol
Sumner,IBM
Senior
Accelerated
Value
Leader
@sumnercl1
Recently
I
was
asked
to
determine
how
one
of
the
communities
I
help
manage
is
doing,
as
far
as
user
participation.
In
order
to
find
out,
I
registered
the
community
in
IBM Connections Community Insights
and
began
exploring
the
data.
I
was
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In
today’s
workplace,
distractions
are
everywhere.
It
is
increasingly
difficult
to
juggle
the
many
devices,
communication
channels,
and
the
flood
of
information
in
order
to
focus
on
work
at
hand.
So
reducing
the
“noise”
is
a
prominent
theme
across
the
enhancements
and
offerings
that
are
new
to
IBM’s
collaboration
solutions.
The
latest
... [ + Read more ]

By
Paul
Band,
IBM
Software
Services
for
Collaboration
Are
you
using
an
earlier
version
of
IBM
Connections
and
yearn
to
take
advantage
of
great
new
features
such
as
Mail,
profile
social
analytics,
activity
streams
and
embedded
experience?
This
blog
identifies
five
key
tips
that
will
help
you
plan
a
more
successful
upgrade
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As
a
competitive
marketing
strategist
in
social
business
I
spend
much
of
my
day
collaborating
with
our
global
sales,
marketing
and
product
teams.
And
until
recently,
this
has
meant
my
inbox
is
overwhelmed
with
email.
Like
many
others
I
know,
I
have
made
frequent
visits
to
"mail
jail".
But
I
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How
to
look
busy
at
work
when
you're
actually
playing
golf
What
I'm
actually
doing:
Riding
down
Interstate
95
My
buddy
and
I
had
purchased
tickets
for
a
game
of
golf
on
a
daily
deals
site.
We
had
an
early
afternoon
tee-time
and
so
we
set
off
mid-morning
on
an
hour
long
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How
IBM
Connections
Makes
My
Job
Easier
By
Paul
Band,
IBM
Software
Services
for
Collaboration
A
short
while
ago
I
was
involved
with
a
complex
proposal
to
migrate
a
customer's
collaboration
environment
from
a
competitor's
technology
to
an
IBM
solution.
The
solution
involved
new
hardware,
a
range
of
software,
and
services
work.
... [ + Read more ]

Hidden
Value
of
Status
Updates
By
Carol
Sumner,
IBM
Senior
Accelerated
Value
Leader
At
IBM
we
are
encouraged
to
post
updates
about
our
activities
on
our
Connections
profiles.
This
is
similar
to
posting
a
status
update
on
Facebook.
I
must
confess
that
I'm
enough
of
an
extrovert
to
thoroughly
enjoy
both
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Phased
IBM
Connections
Rollout?
Profile
Types
May
Be
the
Answer
By
Wannes
Rams,
Senior
Consultant,
GFI
Let's
say
you
want
to
roll
out
IBM
Connections
in
your
company
but
you
can
not
do
this
with
a
big
bang,
but
rather
you
have
to
use
a
phased
approach
to
get
all
your
users
on
the
new
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Social
Business:
We
don’t
come
to
work
to
be
social!
By
Adam
Brown,
Guest
Blogger
Executive
Director
of
ISW,
an
IBM
Premier
Business
Partner
and
creators
of
Kudos
Badges
for
IBM
Connections.
Social
Business
is
a
strange
phrase
really.
Social
kind
of
means
fun
and
business
…well
that
is
serious.
The
... [ + Read more ]